Yetish N. Yetish

Photography captured Yetish early. Yetish could not wait for mailman to deliver his uncle’s subscription of Life magazine in early 60’s when he was in third grade. By fifth grade his favorite magazines were Life, National Geographic and Time. While mildly interested in world affairs he was obsessed of looking at photographs. Drawings and paintings always drew his attention, but photographs were images of real people and places. Without traveling he had stared at the face of an African man, another human just like him yet looked so different, the desert and its curves and colors, the shadows and clouds of a land so far away he dreamt of seeing one day.

In 1982 Yetish left Bangalore to study photography in New York. He studied at the International center of photography. On completion he worked as the house photographer for ICP under Cornell Capa. Yetish later joined Magnum Photos as the house printer. He ran his own studio and photo lab in Manhattan after leaving Magnum. Yetish now works as photographer and printer out of his home in Teaneck NJ.